Hi All, I am wondering if anyone on this list has gotten a Mitsumi CR48X8 TE CDRW drive working with KreateCD or KOncd or anything else as far as that goes. I have gotten the drive to read, erase cdrw's, it slices, it dices, it makes juliene fries, but it won't burn a CDR or rw disc. KreateCD always comes up with errors, but it also sees the drive but recognizes it as a Philips CD522 for some reason and I don't know if that is just KreateCD or cdrecord not being updated for this drive? Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* Amiga-Sales & Service-http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On 24 Dec 2001, Patrick wrote:
Hi All,
I am wondering if anyone on this list has gotten a Mitsumi CR48X8 TE CDRW drive working with KreateCD or KOncd or anything else as far as that goes. I have gotten the drive to read, erase cdrw's, it slices, it dices, it makes juliene fries, but it won't burn a CDR or rw disc. KreateCD always comes up with errors, but it also sees the drive but recognizes it as a Philips CD522 for some reason and I don't know if that is just KreateCD or cdrecord not being updated for this drive?
Have you tried burning something from the CLI and seeing what the errors that cdrecord gives you are? What does KreateCD tell you? You said it can erase CDRWs, which is a great step, I guess. Have you recently updated the cdrecord package on your computer? You state in your sig you are running SuSE 7.2, which comes with cdrecord 1.9 which came out in 1999. There's no point in trying to fix something when it may already be fixed in a recent cdrecord. The newest version is now 1.11a12. You can get my RPM off http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages/cdrtools- 1.11a12-4.i386.rpm or the source at ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha/cdrtools- 1.11a12.tar.gz . Your choice, and the compile is a simple 'make'. Report back... -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0
On Monday 24 December 2001 10:06 pm, Karol Pietrzak, went on about:
Have you tried burning something from the CLI and seeing what the errors that cdrecord gives you are? What does KreateCD tell you? You said it can erase CDRWs, which is a great step, I guess. Have you recently updated the cdrecord package on your computer? You state in your sig you are running SuSE 7.2, which comes with cdrecord 1.9 which came out in 1999. There's no point in trying to fix something when it may already be fixed in a recent cdrecord. ----------------------------------------
Thanks Karol, Got the latest version already as a matter of fact. The old 1.9 version just would lock up the computer when trying to use it for erasing or burning. The new version works without lockups, but I still cannot burn. It goes thru the motions, but I suspect the drive just may not be supported by the software. I have not tried the shell method yet, that is next and will be happy to pass along the error messages to you. Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* Amiga-Sales & Service-http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:59, Patrick wrote:
I am wondering if anyone on this list has gotten a Mitsumi CR48X8 TE CDRW drive working with KreateCD or KOncd or anything else as far as
Yup. One of those served me faithfully for nearly three years. Recently demised, though.
that goes. I have gotten the drive to read, erase cdrw's, it slices, it dices, it makes juliene fries, but it won't burn a CDR or rw disc.
CD-R discs are fine, as long as you use reasonably high-quality, full-size CD-R media. I like Imation, have had good luck with Verbatim, and have resorted to Maxell and Memorex in times of need with good results. My only coasters came from using Windows or my own silly mistakes, not the drive or my software. It will not work at all with CD-RW (that's not what it was made for), and can recognize but not burn to 3.5" media.
KreateCD always comes up with errors, but it also sees the drive but recognizes it as a Philips CD522 for some reason and I don't know if that is just KreateCD or cdrecord not being updated for this drive?
This is consistent. I don't use graphical tools, so I can't help you with those, but cdrecord was great. Remember, 4x8 means 4x CD-R and 8x read; there is no support for CD-RW media of any sort, except that it can read. :) -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | />< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 21:39, Jon Pennington wrote:
I am wondering if anyone on this list has gotten a Mitsumi CR48X8 TE
Okay, re-reading your post and my own reposte brings up a question. Mine was a 4801TE or a 4802TE (memory is a *little* fuzzy); what is your model, exactly?
mistakes, not the drive or my software. It will not work at all with CD-RW (that's not what it was made for), and can recognize but not burn to 3.5" media.
Again, I would like to put this statement on hold until I am *crystal* clear about your own model. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | />< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Monday 24 December 2001 10:50 pm, Jon Pennington, went on about:
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 21:39, Jon Pennington wrote:
I am wondering if anyone on this list has gotten a Mitsumi CR48X8 TE
Okay, re-reading your post and my own reposte brings up a question. Mine was a 4801TE or a 4802TE (memory is a *little* fuzzy); what is your model, exactly?
mistakes, not the drive or my software. It will not work at all with CD-RW (that's not what it was made for), and can recognize but not burn to 3.5" media.
Again, I would like to put this statement on hold until I am *crystal* clear about your own model.
Ok, Jon, the model is the Mitsumi CR48X8TE. It is a 16x8x40 drive and seems like a very good drive. Don't know if my CDRs are top quality or not, but the drive reacts the same wheither it is CDR or CDRW media. I think this is the new & improved model of what you had, the CR4801TE. I guess I need to post some error messages, but you have probably seen many of them already if you dealt with the 4801TE model. I would like to get it working and I am going to do a shell burn later to see how that goes and will let you guys know the outcome. Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* Amiga-Sales & Service-http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 22:08, Patrick wrote:
Ok, Jon, the model is the Mitsumi CR48X8TE.
Really? Please forgive me, but would you mind posting the output of `cdrecord -scanbus' and `dmesg | grep hd`?
It is a 16x8x40 drive and seems like a very good drive.
From my own experience, I'm inclined to agree. I've never had a problem with a Mitsumi anything; they've always outlived their warranty periods, which is really all you can ask of modern hardware. :) The only exception was that when I bought my CD-R, cdrecord wasn't *quite* ready for show yet, but it worked with the next SuSE release (back in the 5.x days). ;)
Don't know if my CDRs are top quality or not,
My first suspect... -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | />< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 12:03 am, Jon Pennington, went on about:
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 22:08, Patrick wrote:
Ok, Jon, the model is the Mitsumi CR48X8TE.
Really? Please forgive me, but would you mind posting the output of `cdrecord -scanbus' and `dmesg | grep hd`?
It is a 16x8x40 drive and seems like a very good drive.
From my own experience, I'm inclined to agree. I've never had a problem with a Mitsumi anything; they've always outlived their warranty periods, which is really all you can ask of modern hardware. :) The only exception was that when I bought my CD-R, cdrecord wasn't *quite* ready for show yet, but it worked with the next SuSE release (back in the 5.x days). ;)
Don't know if my CDRs are top quality or not,
My first suspect...
Ok, here you go Jon, the dmesg thingy!
dmesg | grep hd Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, ATA DISK drive hdc: CR-48X8TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: Memorex CRW-1622, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: 26688576 sectors (13665 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1661/255/63, UDMA(33) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Hope it helps! Patrick -- ---KMail 1.3.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* Amiga-Sales & Service-http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 23:25, Patrick wrote:
hda: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, ATA DISK drive
I had one of those! Good disk. A little clattery, but it never failed me. :)
hdc: CR-48X8TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Again, forgive my insistence, but I've never seen that model before. Most of the one's I've seen have four numeric characters (4801, 4802, and so on).
Hope it helps!
It did. It settled a personal conflict. This is where I let go, thoug; I have no experience with CD-RWs (yet). -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | />< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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